Editorial JCM 136

Halfway through the biggest election year in history, in which over half the world’s population have a chance to vote, and the level of opinion and emotion - amplified by social media - is reaching Tower-of-Babelesque proportions. Strange creatures, humans … the more similar we are, the more we seem to focus on the small differences between us, and the more acutely offensive these minutiae become. This thought-based mutual flagellation reaches its apotheosis in religious difference - especially alternative takes on the same religion - to the point where human beings will gladly kill to prove themselves right and others wrong...